"QCD, strings and black holes:
The Large N limit of field theories and gravity"

Juan Maldacena
IAS, Princeton

 

Abstract

We study Yang Mills theories  with a large number of colors. In this limit the theory becomes a theory of strings. We describe the  string theory associated to  the most supersymmetric
version of Yang Mills theory. These strings  live in a  ten dimensional curved space.This leads to interesting connections between quantum gravity and QCD-like theories. For example, confinement is related to black holes.